*Every Sunday, Juxtapoz.com will highlight an artist that we feel is currently on the cusp of a new level of critical and technical success. The artist we feature will not necessarily be unknown, nor will they be of a pre-established museum career. But they will be artists who have showcased progress in a new body of work that deserves continual examination. We will mostly look at the work itself and let the art speak. Today, we feature California-bred, Stockholm-based artist, Evah Fan.

Our Juxtapoz contributor Shaun Roberts caught up with Brett Amory as he was preparing to ship work out to London for his exhibition at Lazarides' The Outsiders space. The exhibition, Intentional Abstractions, opens January 13th, 2011. Shaun also shot a video of the studio visit. Watch and look after the jump . . .

Grady Gordon creates unique monotype prints inspired by Native American Katchina dolls and Japanese Yokai. I recently stopped by his Oakland based studio to investigate his work chamber and more importantly, witness his process. The following photos are a play by play of Grady at work.

Let's hear from Paul Barnes, who will be showing in the Project Room at Thinkspace starting this Saturday, January 8th: "I guess my closeness to nature and the slight isolation of growing up in the rural north of Scotland, along with my fascination of its ancient traditions rich in folklore and legend no doubt forms the basis of my work, no matter how much I try to escape it. It’s this inspiration, from a very early age, that fuels a big part of my imagination today." More after the jump . . .

On the near eve of his major solo show at Corey Helford Gallery in Culver City, California, Alex Pardee speaks exclusively to Juxtapoz about the work that has gone into Vertigo. The show opens this Saturday night, January 8th, and as Alex says in the interview below, "My ‘VERTIGO’ show is inspired by a famous big game hunter from Kenya named Caleb 'Verti' Parker." The full interview after the jump . . .

"When I happened upon Gregory Bartning’s photography studio during San Francisco’s “Open Studios” event in the Lower Haight, my jaw literally dropped," writes Jasmine June Cabanaw. "Cliche, I know, but that was my physical response when I saw his stunning dance photography displayed on the studio walls. A dancer myself, I was baffled at how geometrically perfect the images were." Interview after the jump . . .

Another good way to end the year. Thinkspace Gallery has shown a strong program this year in Culver City, and we close 2010's Back Talks with Seth Armstrong, who is showing with Adam Caldwell and Brett Amory in There It Is, opening at Thinkspace next Saturday night, January 8, 2011. Feels good to write 2011. Back Talk after the jump . . .

We continue our Back Talks in conjunction with Thinkspace Gallery's upcoming There It Is exhibition featuring the work of Adam Caldwell, Seth Armstrong, and Brett Amory. Today, we speak with increasingly popular fine artist Brett Amory, who continues to have strong showings in San Francisco and Los Angeles. Back Talk after the jump . . .

We appreciate an artist who takes the Back Talk and just goes for it. Adam Caldwell goes for it. We are hoping the work at his show in Thinkspace Gallery, opening January 8, 2011, will also feature work that goes for it. The show, There It Is, features the work of Caldwell, Brett Amory, and Seth Armstrong. Read about Caldwell after the jump . . .

We just met Robert Bowen recently at the Zerofriends Collective pop-up shop in San Francisco, and really found the work to be quite striking and well executed. Our resident blogger Jeben Berg wanted to do a feature, and as Robert is a profile in the magazine this month, we just posted the interview that Jeben did. More after the jump . . .